Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in bot

Originally published in 1985, this book provides a full survey of the best and most significant work of German writers to the First World War. Including (in bot

The horrors of the First World War released a great outburst of emotional poetry from the soldiers who fought in it as well as many other giants of world litera

The First World War was the first industrialised war in Europe, and produced horrors undreamt of by the young men who gaily volunteered for service in a war tha

A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compa